Hello everybody, welcome back to my blog. This week in reading, we have been learning about reading between the lines. It has been interesting, as we have had texts, comics and videos to help us learn about inferring (reading between the lines). We have been asked to make a DLO (Digital Learning Object) about this, so here is mine:

Tell me what you think in the comments below. Is there anything you saw that I might not have? What do you think about how the siblings are acting towards each other? How do you think they would act towards the parents? Let me know. Thank you so much for reading my blog, and I will see you next time!

Hello everybody, welcome back to my blog. It has been a while, since we had school holidays (Its my last term here, kinda sad but I will be fine in high school). For the last four weeks of Term 3 we were learning about ‘How we can be Champions on Peace’. 

Firstly we learnt about the different symbols of peace. Some of these are the olive branch, the dove, a heart, the koru, etc. The dove came to represent peace with God and innocence, the koru symbolises growth, peace and new beginnings. The olive branch symbolises peace since the ancient Greeks believed that olive branches represented plenty and drove away evil spirits and an olive branch was one of the attributes of Eirene, the Greek goddess of peace.

With these symbols in mind I created a Peace Artwork. My Peace Artwork represents peace because It shows many signals of peace including the dove, heart, olive branch, the V signal, and the actual peace signal.

We also researched some real life champions of peace and wrote a short biography. I wrote about Nelson Mandela. I thought he was a champion of peace because when he became President of South America, he thought of everyone and improved their living conditions instead of immediately thinking about himself.

Some of us created a peace prayer book. I added prayers from different religions. Enjoy!

Learning about peace was very interesting because there was so much to learn about. We learnt in different ways, like we had to do create tasks, but then we also could learn about something and not make a create task. We watched videos, read books, made things as you can see above.

I learnt that there isn’t much peace in the world, but those who do show peace and try to make a change are very valuable to the world. 

One way I plan on being a champion of peace is by trying not to fight with my siblings, and try to be nicer in general.

Thank you for reading my blog. What have you learnt about peace? Tell me in the comments, and I will catch you next time!

Hello everyone, welcome back to my blog. I am sorry for not posting earlier, but remember the posts about production? I was occupied with that. I played the role of chief inspector, and that was so much fun. But anyway, this week for maths, we have been learning geometry. We have been learning to find how many lines of symmetry there are in a picture/pattern. Our task for this week was to create a floor pattern that was symmetrical, meaning that the top half had to be the same as the bottom half, or one side has to be the same as the other side. It also had to have 6 different shapes, and 6 different complementary colors. Here is what I made:

Do you like it? Can you find all the shapes and colours? What colours would you have added?  Comment down below. Thank you for reading my blog, and see you next time!

Hello everyone, welcome back to my blog. This week in school, we read an interesting bit of text. Our goal was to identify several ideas, discuss the author’s stance or purpose, and understand relationships in the text. The relationship between the mother and the main character was… not very good. The story is called How to Fall, and HERE is the text we read if you want to read it as well, but if you don’t, here is the summary. The main character and her mum had a fight because they moved houses, but Maia, the main character, had no say in whether they moved or not, or which house, or what the house looked like. Basically had no say in where she was going to live. So they weren’t talking, but Maia’s mum took her to her aunt’s rollerskating derby, and Maia decided she wanted to learn how to roller skate. She learns how to fall safely, falls while practising, and ends up not caring if she gets embarrassed.

And now I have told you, let me tell you what the create is. We had to make 2 things. The first thing was something to help us complete our goals, but the second thing was much more fun. We had to write a diary entry as if we were the main character. I think I did pretty well. Here is my goal create:

I have made it a bit bigger, since you couldn’t read the text at the bottom. Here is my favourite one of the two; the diary entry. Enjoy!

How would you have done it? Please tell me in the comments. Would you have made it more aggressive, or maybe made the main character more forgiving? Made her more mad, or just seem defeated? I’m interested to know. Thank you for reading, and I hope you enjoyed!

Kia ora everyone, welcome back to my blog. This is going to be a big one, since I will be/have been working on it for ages. Sit back and enjoy!

Over the first few weeks of Term 3 we have been reading and writing all different types of poetry. There are so many we have learnt about, including sonnets, biographical poems, and many more. If you have read my Cruel New World blog posts (there are three of them), or some of my other writing ones, then you will know that I absolutely adore writing and reading. And many more things that you can read in my first poem. But writing is my number one most favourite thing to do in the whole world. I love getting lost in my own fantasy world, and getting to decide what happens to the characters I made, or just explaining things. Writing is my own kingdom that I control. Some of you may know what that feels like, some of you may not. And that’s fine. You don’t have to. I could go on and on about writing, but I have wasted enough time. So first up are my haiku poems. Haiku poems have three lines to them, the first and third lines are five syllables, and the second line 7 syllables.  I have done more than I needed to, because as I said, I love writing, so I did a little extra. This set of haiku poems is about the things I love, as in the things I love to do and the people I love. This is not in order, just in the order I wrote them. Enjoy!

The next type of poetry I did was Blackout Poetry. This is when you get a random page out of a book, string some words from that page to make a sentence and colour in the rest of the page. I discovered that Blackout poetry is the art of selectively erasing words from existing texts to create new poetic compositions. It was interesting, and a little painful, since I love books, to colour over a page. The page I had was out of The Wizard Of Oz. Here is what I managed, enjoy!

The next thing I did were Limericks. I learned that a limerick is a humorous five-line poem with a distinctive rhyme scheme and a bouncy rhythm. I enjoyed making the different lines rhyme. How limericks work is that they are 5 lines long. The first, second and fifth lines are around 8 syllables long, and the 3rd and 4th lines are around 6 syllables long. I have done three, here they are.

 

There once was a silly man.

He kicked a rusty can.

Inside were some mice,

Who thought that wasn’t nice,

So they bit his legs ’till he ran

 

There once was a silly old king

To him everything was boring.

He called for his jester,

But all he did was pester,

So he got thrown out with a fling.

 

There once was an egg called Humpty.

He fell and got a bumpy.

If only the wall

Wasn’t so tall,

He would never have had an ouchy.

 

The next poem I wrote was Biographical Poetry. This poem is about one person. It can be anyone. How do you write this poem, you ask? Well, it consists of 11 lines.

1st line: First name, 2nd line: 4 words describing the person, 3rd line: Something they enjoy, 4th line: Something they love, 5th line: Something they fear, 6th line: Something they wonder, 7th line: Something they wish, 8th line: Something they dream of, 9th line: 2 things they feel, 10th line: Something they plan to do, 11th line: Last name. Here is my biographical poem about me, I hope you enjoy!

 

Izzy

Independent, quiet, imaginative, creative,

Writing, rollerskating,

Music, Pets,

Being unable to breathe, Parents getting mad at me,

What happens to my soul after I die?

To get accepted at Burnside High,

To be like my parents,

Happy, Safe,

To be a writer and a baby sitter,

Hegedus-Gaspar

 

Last of all are list poems. I discovered that a list poem is a poetic form that presents ideas, images, or emotions through a series of items or descriptions. It was interesting to write these, as I had to find a topic, then find 4 words describing that topic. I wrote the four words on the bottom right corner of the page, so you can find the words in the poem itself. Enjoy!

I really enjoyed making these poems, it has been quite fun and relaxing for me. Have you guys ever made any of these poems before? Do you know any more types of poems? What is something new you learned about poetry? Which poem stood out to you the most and why? If you want to make any of these poems, go ahead, they are pretty easy once you know what you are doing. I’m sorry for the extra long blog post, but I hope you enjoyed it. Tell me which poem was your favourite. Thank you for reading all the way through, and see you next time!

Kia ora everyone, welcome back to my blog. this one might be a short one, since I don’t have much time, but the next post is going to make up for it. So we have been doing science experiments for the past few weeks. We have done 4 in total, but only one of them has worked for me. It was to make a light bulb light up with just 2 batteries, tin foil, wires and electrical tape. It was pretty easy once I figured it out, but surprisingly, only one other person could do it. We watched a video explaining how electricity works, and while it didn’t say anything about lighting up a light bulb, it did say that the electricity only flows if it goes in a loop. My hypothesis was that if I make the electricity go in a loop, the bulb should light up. Let me explain how I did it.

So first of all, I taped the two batteries together with the electrical tape, making sure there were no gaps. Then, I taped a wire on each end of the batteries, making sure that again, there were no gaps. then, I attached the two wires to a light bulb, securing it using tape and tinfoil. It then lit up. Here is what it looked like:

My Hypothesis was correct, and I was very happy about that. Anyway, thank you for reading this blog, I hope you enjoyed. Have you ever done a science experiment before? How did it go? Did it work? Tell me in the comments. I am going to post a longer blog at the end of the week, so come back to read that if you like poetry. Thanks again for reading, and I will see you next time!

Hello everyone, welcome back to my blog. I have had a very good morning, how about you? Tell me in the comments. Shout out to my wonderful Auntie who lives on the other side of the world. She has really supported me in my writing over the past few weeks. I love her so much.

Anyway, back to the blog. I have finally finished my writing! As some of you may know, a quiet place to silently write is my happy place. Writing is a fantasy world I can escape to. You guys should try it sometime. It definitely works for me. Here is what I have done. Be aware, it is 16 pages long! You don’t have to finish it all.

 

HERE is the link, because I’m not sure how to put a google doc into the blog. Enjoy!

Please tell me your feedback in the comments if you did read it, and I will see you later!

Hello everyone, welcome back to my blog. Today, I am posting because next term, St Francis of Assisi is going to perform a play called Porridge. Basically, it is a play about Happy Valley, a place filled with happy fairy tale characters, with a few nursery rhyme characters dotted around too. But when crime hits this fun, happy place, everything goes wrong. Happy Valley is no longer so happy anymore. Who is behind all this? I am not saying anymore. You will have to come see the play for yourself. What’s that I hear? You don’t know where to go, what time, and everything else? Well, I have created a poster to make sure everyone knows where to go. Enjoy!

What do you think? Do you think I worded it right? Is it easy to read? Please tell me so I can improve my work. I will try my hardest to comment back as soon as I can.

Alright. Now that you know where to go and what time, how do you make sure that they will let you in? After all, you do need a ticket to show you have your own seat. Never fear, I have done that too. I have tried to include everything I could think of, but tell me in the comments if I have missed something!

What do you think? Can you see everything you need on a ticket? I couldn’t write down what seat you sat in, because there are many seats, but otherwise, I think this is a pretty decent ticket. What would you have put on your ticket? Tell me in the comments.

Hello everyone! Welcome back to my blog. Today, I will be showing you the reading create I made this week. I have worked a lot on this, with SO MUCH changing. I went from a blank page to one poster to another poster… It was really chaotic. I would never wish it apon my worst enemies. Anyway, I did finish in the end, and even though I have a whole heap of other work to do, I am proud of myself. Here is my work, enjoy!

So! What do you think? I did all of this in around 5 minutes, I am so proud of myself. Did you read a book/text today? What did you read? Tell me in the comments. I will post soon, so see you next time!

Kia ora, everyone, welcome back to my blog. This week, I have written my opinion about another article, this time about minecraft. This article is about a few things to know about minecraft. I don’t need to read much about minecraft, because I do know a bit about it, but tell me in the comments if you have learnt anything from THIS article. Other than that, enjoy!

Tell me in the comments what you think about this. How much do you know about minecraft? Was this text useful for you?